link dump

Today was a very lazy day. I took the day off work again and didn’t get much done, but that’s OK. I did make up another batch of yuzu curd; my plan is to do something interesting for a party this weekend, but I’m not entirely sure what yet. I may also steal some tonight to top some blackberries I got at a local market.

Links!

PNFS looks like a very interesting technology to watch; it’s partly supported by NetApp, and looks like the idea is to take what StorNext does with separating out metadata and data on a filesystem, but be more agnostic about where the file data lives (including on NFS servers instead of just fiber channel disk).

Every now and then I re-stumble across English Russia, a photoblog of interesting things that happen in the countries of the former USSR. This post shows some soviet ideas for an airship-based postal system (how wonderfully steampunk!). This next one has some beautiful amateur (or at least non-professional) photography of the areas currently involved in the Russian/Georgian conflict.